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Urgent Call To The European People
Santiago of Chile, December 2002 Both, the Chilean and the European Delegation have reached an agreement, on May 2002, on the final text of an Free Trade Agreement that has been negotiated since 1990. The European Union (EU) is accepting in signing a free trade agreement and making business with a country that does not accomplish with what the Foreign Economic Affairs Commission and the Development and Cooperation Commission of the European Parliament , in 1997, considered important and urgent for Chile to accomplish so that it would be an associate and able to sign the Free Trade Agreement as it had been stablished on the Resolution A40023 / 97 of the European Parliament in 1997. The European Union does not take into account of what their Management Code stablishes and that it imposed to the european enterprises that invest in the Third World Countries, like ours, and it seems to be that they ignore the violation to such Codes that your enterprises executing in Chile. The European Union wants to sign a Free Trade Agreement with a country that is governed by authorities with lack of political determination to accomplish with the requisites stablished by the European Parliament since 1997 and also tolerant with the abuses and violations against the workers and the environment committed by foreign enterprises (where we find the european enterprises too). The European Union and the Chilean Government have agreed to sign a Free Trade Agreement, with no participation at all of the chilean and European citizens and their social organization, not giving the full information to the whole society and hiding that information that tells us the real basis and conditions of that Free Trade Agreement: the abuses and violation committed by one of the parts and the tolerance of the other. The labour unions, the political and civil organizations that sign this Urgent Call, before all want to inform and denounce to all the European People how the transnational enterprises increase their profits and wealth thanks to the abuses and violation that our Democratic Goverment allows, and that they give an urgent call to all the European People, to their worker´s and student´s unions, to their political parties, to their cultural organizations and to all the movements that fight against the globalization of this abuses and violations formalized in this and other Commercial Agreements, in other to prevent that their Local Parliaments ratify this Free Trade Agreement between the Chilean Government and the European Parliament that do not take into account the suffering of their own people. We, the organization that sign this urgent call, invite all the European People and their organization to demand, denounce, resist, prevent, stop and to use all the forms that our imagination allows us in other to block this Agreement in the ratification process in each parliament of the nations that form the European Union, so that none of this people could be mixed with all this human rights violations that we have already informed previously since the end of Pinochet's Dictatorship. We put this Urgent Call in the hands of the European organization and people, that don not tolerate the misery and the oppression the violations to the human and labour rights and the destruction of the environment. The document "The Strike of the Jaguar" so that you can observe that generate profits of the transnational enterprise in Chile. This document is to be used as a means of discussion and propaganda of what is happening in our country as a previous effect of the Free Trade Agreement. FEDERACIÓN NACIONAL DE SINDICATOS
DE TRABAJADORES DEL AREA DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN, MADERA, ÁRIDOS,
SERVICIOS Y OTROS Chile: The Strike of the Jaguar
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